Career Mentoring Lunch

The Career Mentoring Lunch, organized by ELSO’s Career Development Committee, has become a regular and very popular feature of the ELSO meetings. The idea is to benefit from the experience and advice of the mentors on one of the ten 'round-table' topics, below, while you take your lunch break. The mentors are all volunteers from the speakers, chairpersons and other senior participants at the meeting. The sandwich lunch is provided to all participants free of charge thanks to generous sponsorship by Science Careers. The Career Mentoring Lunch, which takes place on Monday after the Plenary Sessions (1230 to 1500) in Room Clio is restricted to 100 participants to give everyone a good chance to ask questions and get advice on their chosen topic.

If you would like to have the advice of our mentors on one of the topics above, please sign up now to ensure you have a place at a table. The session is free.

Table 1	After your Ph.D. – what comes next? Choice between postdoc (in home country or abroad), jobs outside academia. (BOOKED OUT!) Alberto Luini, Gillian Griffiths
Table 2	Planning your career: obtaining an appropriate postdoc position (really popular). (BOOKED OUT!) Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Matthias Wymann
Table 3	Starting your own lab: where and how (tenured/fellowship/Grant) and other issues. Vania Bragga, Jen Zallen
Table 4	Job application strategies for academic positions: applying for independent positions - first as a junior independent investigator and then at higher (perhaps) professorial level. David Holden, Andres Alcover
Table 5	Defining and refining research directions for your group. Marja Jaattela, Manolis Dermitzakis
Table 6	Raising kids while pursuing a career in science. Catrin Pritchard, Nico Dantuma, Clare Blackburn
Table 7	Publishing. How important is it for your career? When is your story ready to be published? Which journal to try? Who should be involved in writing the paper, and who should be coauthors? How to reply to editors and reviewers? Valerie Weaver, Nouria Hernandez
Table 8	Managing a team, motivating people, conflict management. Veronica von Heyningen, Tony Hyman
Table 9	Is life science changing, should the coming generation scientists be more multidisciplinary? Jan Hoeijmakers, Michelle Peckham
Table 10	Communicating your science. Stephen Simpson

If you are interested to get the advice of professionals on one of the topics below, then please sign up now to ensure you have a place at a table. The session is free.

Questions? Contact Catherine Rabouille at C.Rabouille

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